“We are in the process of trying to deliver on the promise he made
to fix it.”

By January 12, Trump must again decide whether or not to certify the
JCPOA nuclear deal, something he’s required to do quarterly.

Clearly recertification is off-the-table. It’s unclear what he
intends next in the coming days.

According to Tillerson, he’s working with congressional leaders “on
a very active basis,” wanting lawmakers to do his dirty work.

Tillerson expressed “disappoint(ment) that the European Union has
not taken a more definitive stance in supporting” Washington’s
position on Iran, in the Security Council on Friday.

Like extremist Nikki Haley, Mike Pence is an embarrassment to the
office he holds, one of numerous Ziofascists infesting the
administration and Washington.

Commenting on Iran, he recited a litany of Big Lies, falsely calling
its 2009 “fraudulent,” laughably claiming “(t)he United States has
long stood with those who yearn for freedom and a brighter future.”

US imperial lawlessness needs no elaboration. Nor does its homeland
police state agenda, its support for privileged interests
exclusively, its contempt for the rights of ordinary people at home
and abroad.

Iran is no “dictatorship,” as Pence falsely claimed. It’s no
“leading state sponsor of terrorism” - America its leading sponsor
and proliferator.

Iranians are not “rising up” against their government. US dirty
hands, likely complicit with Israel, are responsible for days of
violent protests.

Pence: “The president has said that ‘oppressive regimes cannot
endure forever.’ “

He’s right. Imperial America one day will meet the same fate as
earlier empires before it.

China, Russia and other nations are rising. The late historian
Gabriel Kolko believed US preeminence began declining after the
1950s Korean war, accelerated during years of Southeast Asia
aggression, further exacerbated by Bush/Cheney wars.

Analyst Immanuel Wallerstein earlier said “(t)he economic, political
and military factors that contributed to US hegemony are the same
(ones) inexorably produc(ing) the coming US decline.”

The late Chalmers Johnson explained America is plagued by the same
dynamic that doomed other empires unwilling to change.

Self-destructive factors include “isolation, overstretch, the
uniting of local and global forces opposed to imperialism, and in
the end bankruptcy.”

He believed tyranny and loss of personal freedom would follow,
arriving unannounced, wrapped in the American flag, heading the
nation for ruin.

A nation permanently at war with invented enemies is eventually
doomed by its hubris and arrogance.